Tuesday’s hearing, which featured testimony from Atlanta whistleblowers prior to Carvajal’s questioning, came amid an AP investigation that has exposed widespread problems within the agency, including criminal employees, escaping inmates, a women’s prison known to staff and inmates as the “rape club” because of rampant staff sexual abuse, and critically low staffing that has hampered responses to emergencies. The Atlanta prison, a 120-year-old relic in Ossoff’s home state, once housed some of the country’s most notorious criminals, including gangster Al Capone, James “Whitey” Bulger and Carlo Ponzi, the namesake of the “Ponzi Scheme.” Today, it’s a crumbling, medium-security facility - no longer a penitentiary in the true sense of the term - with about 900 male inmates, including people awaiting trial. Tuesday’s hearing, one of several promised by the subcommittee, focused on years of misconduct and abuse at a federal penitentiary in Atlanta, but the problems unearthed there speak to larger systemic issues in the Bureau of Prisons, such as severe staffing shortages, deficient health care and barely edible food. The director, who’s declined nearly all interview requests since taking office in 2020, ducked into a freight elevator with aides before bolting down a stairwell once they realized reporters had followed them in. It’s completely unacceptable.”Īfterward, Carvajal ran from reporters seeking to speak with him about his testimony. And for the answer to be other people deal with that. Don’t want to hear about suicides.”Īdded Ossoff: “It’s a disgrace.
“Don’t want to know what’s happening below me. “It’s almost willful ignorance, and that’s what I find disturbing,” Johnson said of Carvajal’s reluctance to own his mistakes. Ossoff withdrew the subpoena immediately before Carvajal’s testimony, only after the director appeared at the hearing. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., whose scrutiny of the Bureau of Prisons was spurred in part by Associated Press reporting that has exposed myriad crises at the agency.įurther aggravating the senators, Carvajal initially refused to testify, only doing so after the subcommittee subpoenaed him on July 14 - and then, upon arriving in the hearing room, claiming he was there voluntarily.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - With just days left in his tenure, the embattled director of the federal prison system faced a bipartisan onslaught Tuesday as he refused to accept responsibility for a culture of corruption and misconduct that has plagued his agency for years.īureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal, testifying before the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, insisted he had been shielded from problems by his underlings - even though he’d been copied on emails, and some of the troubles were detailed in reports generated by the agency’s headquarters.Ĭarvajal, who resigned in January and is set to be replaced next week by Oregon’s state prison director Colette Peters, blamed the size and structure of the Bureau of Prisons for his ignorance on issues such as inmate suicides, sexual abuse, and the free flow of drugs, weapons and other contraband that has roiled some of the agency’s 122 facilities.Ĭarvajal said several times that the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s largest component with a budget of more than $8 billion - was a “very large and complex organization” and that there was “no possible way” for him to know everything that was going on.Ĭarvajal’s attempts to deflect responsibility for his leadership failings didn’t sit well with the subcommittee’s chairman, Sen.
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